Articles for Outreach & Missions
Gratitude: The Brain’s Amazing Fertilizer
Consider what science has discovered about the benefits of gratitude.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
You Are Not Your Anxiety
It doesn’t take much—just one thought—and the sickening feeling stabs my stomach. I am having an anxiety attack again.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
What Is the Rapture? (1 Thessalonians 4)
What does Scripture tell us about the rapture? And why are there different theories surrounding it?
Administration
6 Systems Every Executive Pastor Needs to Evaluate This Year
The best executive pastors sit at the intersection of vision and reality. That is to say, they spend their time balancing the bright future of the church on one hand and the facts of where the church is today on the other.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Does God Trust YOU?
God gives us open-book tests, but we don’t know we have been examined until it is over. The point of these tests is to determine "Can God trust you?"
Articles for Outreach & Missions
How Overcomers Think and Live
An overcomer disciplines his internal conversation toward a focus of praise to God. Discipline involves regulating your thinking and conduct by principle—not emotion, impulse or circumstances.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Africa, Animism and the Dangers of the Prosperity Gospel
Newer generations of Africans live in constant fear of the spirits of poverty, sickness, failure and depression. They seek out a “pastor” or a prophet or a bishop for some formula that may give them spiritual power for a breakthrough or a deliverance. This is the new animism of Africa.
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Is Suicide an Unforgivable Sin?
For many of us, we’ve had a loved one or a friend’s loved one decide to end their life, and it has left us with many questions. For instance, does suicide send you to hell?